Comments on: Tom Joyner Wants Justice

By: Frank DiSalle

Frank DiSalle — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:11:52 +0000

libertarians are more like conservatives than they are like liberals. The fact that their name begins with “liber” shouldn’t sway you.

And, please note that I didn’t say Reason was a conservative blog. What I said was,”Is that conservative enough for you?”

And, for the record, the story first came to national attention because of the work of a Texas based reporter, not Bob Herbert.

Zython, why don’t you give up? That comment does not say I “don’t believe in progress”. It says, and I quote (because I wrote it, I know what I meant, and YOU DON”T!) :

Is that one of those rules, that society is “supposed” to progress socially and technologically?
Who says?

The operative word being “supposed”, which is why it is in quotes.

Secondly, if you reread the sentemce with some decent reading comprehension, “progress” is being compared to “perfection”.

So, you see, I prefer progress to perfection. And, also, I do not believe that society as a whole has some abstract mandate to progress socially and technologically.

I trust that will keep you happily sucking your thumb ’til sunset.

By: Porlock Junior

Porlock Junior — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:29:36 +0000

Reason magazine? That’s not conservative, it’s libertarian-skeptic. All the difference in the world, if you believe the Reason libertarians. Which, of course, no one does so I guess we can agree with FDS on one point. See how liberal we are?

By: Zython

Zython — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:08:18 +0000

I believe in “Progress, not perfection”. No you don't.

By: Frank DiSalle

Frank DiSalle — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:41:51 +0000

Excuse me, Sean, but if your goal is a color blind America, then we won’t be passing the goal line until racial distinctions are obliterated, That will take at least three generations, or ninety years, at the current rate of biracial marriages.

I believe in “Progress, not perfection”.

Also, I was sticking a jab, because he sounds silly when he says “Fucking monsters”, each time he says it. The faux outrage tickles me.

By: Sean D. Martin

Sean D. Martin — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:16:52 +0000

Frank DiSalle: Apparently, the “fucking monsters” are making progress.

Yea! So they’ve advanced to being just plain monsters now?

Progress is good and should be recognized. But the cheers don’t come until you pass the goal line.

By: Indeed

Indeed — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:33:04 +0000

That conservative enough for you?

Not really.

A quick check of Tulia, TX news shows that hardly anyone covered the story. Apparently, police corruption isn’t big news, even if the victims are black.

There’s more than Fox News out there. Thankfully.

By: SaveFarris

SaveFarris — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:32:17 +0000

Did the research show that the actual killer was the Cambridge Police Department?

By: Frank DiSalle

Frank DiSalle — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:15:09 +0000

Finkelman, an Albany Law School professor, called the petition astonishing. In his decades studying Southern history, this is the first time he's seen petitions signed by prominent white residents in support of a black man accused of murdering a white man. Apparently, the "fucking monsters" are making progress. Reason.com reviewed, favorably, a book about the whole sordid mess in 2006. That conservative enough for you? A quick check of Tulia, TX news shows that hardly anyone covered the story. Apparently, police corruption isn't big news, even if the victims are black.

By: Indeed

Indeed — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:52:14 +0000

A lot of families have marks on their name because local cops thought (and very often still think) that just picking a black guy at random and charging him with crimes counts as justice.

Tulia, Texas comes to mind. That story wasn’t big enough, in my opinion. You didn’t hear much from the usual right-wing suspects about it. For some reason (happy to be proven wrong).

Fucking monsters.

http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_tulia.html

By: soullite

soullite — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:44:07 +0000

A lot of families have marks on their name because local cops thought (and very often still think) that just picking a black guy at random and charging him with crimes counts as justice.

By: jr

jr — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:05:47 +0000

The death penalty isn’t cool.